Segmental and Prosodic Issues in Romance Phonology

Segmental and prosodic issues in Romance phonology......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 8
References......Page 15
Part I. SEGMENTS AND PROCESSES......Page 18
1. Introduction......Page 20
2. Empirical evidence for a specific status of liaison consonants in speech perception......Page 22
3. Further evidence on the specific perceptual status of liaison consonants......Page 25
4. General discussion......Page 33
References......Page 38
1. Introduction......Page 42
2. Degrees of articulatory constraint and coarticulatory sensitivity......Page 43
3. Coarticulatory direction......Page 44
4. Coarticulatory organization in speech production......Page 51
5. Sound change......Page 53
6. Conclusions......Page 54
References......Page 55
1. Introduction......Page 58
2. Co-occurring features: Nasality and frication......Page 62
3. Contiguous frication and nasality......Page 64
4. Experiment. Variations in articulatory overlap......Page 69
5. Discussion and conclusions......Page 77
6. General conclusions......Page 78
References......Page 79
1. Introduction......Page 84
2. The experiment......Page 86
3. Spontaneous speech data......Page 93
4. Discussion......Page 95
References......Page 98
PART 2. PROSODIC STRUCTURE......Page 100
1. Introduction......Page 102
2. Experiment 1: comparative production study......Page 106
3. Experiments 2 and 3: Right-dislocated phrases in Catalan......Page 112
4. Summary and conclusion......Page 119
References......Page 120
Appendix......Page 123
1. Asymmetries in cluster simplification......Page 126
2. Hypotheses......Page 131
4. Cluster simplification strategies in Spanish and French......Page 132
5. Formalizing the asymmetries......Page 138
6. Voicing-dependent asymmetries and cluster simplification......Page 141
References......Page 142
Appendix: Stimuli......Page 145
1. Introduction......Page 148
2. Background......Page 150
3. Typology of boundary cues......Page 151
4. Phonological choices......Page 154
5. The phonetics of the H boundary tone......Page 157
References......Page 167
1. Introduction......Page 172
2. Methodology......Page 174
3. Results......Page 178
4. Discussion and conclusions......Page 189
References......Page 191
PART 3 ACQUISITION OF SEGMENTAL CONTRASTS AND PROSODY......Page 194
1. Introduction......Page 196
2. The target system......Page 198
3. The acquisition puzzle......Page 201
4. The data......Page 202
5. The results......Page 203
6. Discussion and conclusions......Page 210
References......Page 213
1. Introduction......Page 216
3. Stress discrimination studies: Spanish and Catalan infant data......Page 226
2. Preference studies: Spanish and Catalan infant data......Page 223
4. Final comments......Page 229
References......Page 230
1. Introduction......Page 236
2. Fitting a logistic regression model......Page 237
3. Interpreting logistic regression coefficients......Page 242
4. Conclusion......Page 251
References......Page 252
1. Introduction......Page 254
2. Production studies of speech rhythm......Page 256
3. Rhythm metrics and the perception of native and non-native accent......Page 265
4. General discussion......Page 270
References......Page 272
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 276
The series CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUISTIC THEORY......Page 280